Insiders And Outsiders In The Crucible By Arthur Miller

In The Crucible a lot of stuff happens. A girl controls the whole village with her bad reputation. A families life gets messed up. Also alot, a lot of people die just because of this girls actions. Every bad thing leads to another and that is what happens in this play. In this play it shows who people really are when a person gets power they don't care about others they get what they want. Repetition is everything in that time.Reputation and integrity is a big role in this book just because everyone's reputation changes dramatically over and over again. With a bad reputation you can do bad things. If you have a powerful reputation you can get whatever you want and when you want it. In The Crucible By Arthur Miller, Reputation and integrity was shown by the characters actions.

How many people have you met in your life that is stronger because of a difficult experience they went through? Most people are because we take these difficult experiences and grow from them and become better people. This is the exact case is expressed in the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. The story begins in Salem, Massachusetts 1692 right in the middle of a period of witchcraft hysteria. During this time many people were accused of being witches and wrongly convicted by judges Danforth and Hathorne. The characters in the story are struggling because of a girl named Abigail who gets caught practicing witchcraft and then starts naming and accusing others so that she doesn’t get in trouble; one of these people being a well-respected farmer, John Proctor’s, wife Elizabeth. The title, The Crucible, refers to a test, trial, ordeal, formation by fire, and vessel baked to resist heat, and the entire story is an allegory meaning it has a hidden meaning. John Proctor symbolizes a crucible by embodying the definition of one, as he went through a test and was formed by fire.

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible the witch trials in Salem were a devastating time. The entire community was in disorder and chaos because of personal vengeance. This included accusations of innocent town’s people being called witches, so they hanged and were jailed. Throughout the play certain characters help the rise of witchcraft as well as the disapproval of all the innocent people who were being convicted for no reason. Reverend Hale is a dynamic character whom comes to rid of the evil spirits in Salem, yet he later tries to end the trials. Hale realizes the accusations are false, attempts to postpone the hangings, and persuade the victims to lie conveys that he is a dynamic character and changes throughout the play.

A man 's reputation in many forms is his, life’s work. To have your reputation dismantled is like taking away one 's accomplishments and life’s work. Arthur Miller 's The Crucible is a play about justice and injustice, and how our justice system can be easily corrupted. The story revolves around a man named John Proctor, the tragic hero of this story. John Protector is a symbolic character created by Arthur Miller, because he faced the justice system head on. Proctor’s biggest flaw would be his great amounts of pride, which unfortunately led to his own death. In Arthur Millers’ The Crucible, he characterizes John Proctor as the tragic hero of the story because of all that he lost, through his relentless crusade to free his wife and exposing injustice, illustrating that no hero is perfect.

Do you feel that your leaders ever fail to use their authority in the way you believe they should? James Madison believes that government is power, and since humans are in charge of the right, it always has the ability of being misused. Communities revert to chaos when the authority figures abuse the influence they have. Madison’s argument is correct because people in general need strong rulers, so if the privilege given to the superiors is exploited, society begins to break down.

Authority is the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. In society it has been something you are taught as toddler to respect authority, your elders. There are plenty of rules that as children we follow because it has been enforced in our minds that those are the rules and we must follow them. The rules do not tend to be questioned until someone disobeys them and did not think their actions were wrong. It is then that we being to question authority and resist the majority rule. No matter how unfair the laws of the governments might seem, it does not change the fact that people in society obey them. Henry Thoreau, Stanley Milgram and Martin Luther King have all considered the reasons as to why we obey authority and what the struggles of resisting majority rule may be. As a society there has come times that people themselves disobey the law and even in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the people being to resist authority. Authority may play a major role in society but when people being to come to a realization of the rules that are unjust, they being to resist and protest against them.

A person chooses not to take good care of his/her car, and as a result, the car malfunctions, resulting in the person having an accident. Every single action that a person commits leads to either a positive or a negative consequence. The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a book filled with mistakes and the outcomes of those mistakes, and this piece of literature provides readers with an opportunity to analyze some causes and effects. Every character in the crucible created a situation that gave place for a negative consequence to take place. This led him or her to endeavor to protect the virtue of their reputation. Three most significant characters, whose actions are greatly emphasized throughout the story, are Abigail

1."Participate" in the Salem Witch Trials. Write a paragraph response, as the accused, describing your feelings.

The Crucible was based in 1692 in and around the town of Salem, Massachusetts, USA. The Salem witch-hunt was view as one of the strangest and most horrendous chapters in the human history. People that were prosecuted were all innocent and their deaths were all due to false accusation of people’s ridiculous belief in superstition and their paranoia. The Puritans in those times were very strict in personal habits and morality; swearing, drunkenness and gambling would be punished. The people of Salem believed in the devil and thought that witchcraft should be hunted out.

 The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trials. The entire community is in pandemonium yet certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts. Miller uses three characters that manifest this internal battle ever so clearly: Mary Warren whose whole world turns upside down, John Proctor who must weigh the importance of his family against his reputation and Reverend Hale who must decide whether to do his job, or do what he knows to be right. 

Authority is defined as the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. People who possess this power are usually kings, presidents, priests, and any person that has power over another in a particular sphere. Authority is usually is given to one by the majority, the people. Examples of the nature of authority can be found in The Crucible. Written by Arthur Miller The Crucible is a response to McCarthyism in the United States. Set in 1962 during the Salem witch trial hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts, the Crucible exposes McCarthyism as a lie based on mass hysteria. Major characters in the play that had played the most significant part on the effects of the witch trial were all authority figures. The majority people

How much influence can a group of people with power have on society? In the story, The Crucible, author Arthur Miller depicts a group of girls lead by Abigail Williams, who are going around the town of Salem accusing people of witchcraft. Many people in the town are living in fear of being accused because Abigail and the girls prosecute anyone they desire. After being prosecuted, some people choose to join the girl’s side and shift the blame to someone else.

As John and Elizabeth Proctor discuss the recent issue of witchcraft in Salem, Giles Corey and Francis Nurse rush in appearing troubled. They both claim that their wives have been wrongly convicted of witchcraft and have been taken to jail. Giles explains that Mr. Walcott once had a pig that died right after he purchased it from Mrs. Corey. He continues by mentioning how his wife informed Mr. Walcott that his pigs won’t live long unless he feeds them. Giles share Walcott’s conviction against his wife, exclaiming, “Now he goes to court and claims that from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive for more than four weeks because my Martha bewitched them with her books!” (Miller 68). Giles Corey understands that Mr. Walcott is using only one instance to justify why his pigs are dying. He acknowledges that Mr. Walcott has manipulated the words of his wife and taken her interest in books to draw his own conclusion with no real evidence. Instead of searching for a rational reason to explain the death of his pigs, he simply chooses an explanation which brings the least amount of scrutiny upon his own failure, even though such an explanation is completely irrational. Mr. Walcott’s hasty generalization has come back to hurt Mrs. Corey and put Mr. Corey in a state of distress as he struggles to prove her innocence. Additionally, the use of hasty

The love or lust for a specific individual is a common conflict in personal rivalries today. A universal understanding of the term rivalry is the competition for the same objective or superiority in the same field. Many rivalries are established in the chronicles of the Salem witch trials. These often correlate to the lust or love rivalries or personal rivalries between two or more characters. Arthur Miller's timeless classic The Crucible demonstrates the fight between good and evil of rivalries through an engaging plot. Personal rivalries are a major component in the theme of Arthur Miller's play.

The concept of morality can be broken down into two major spheres, categorized by their differing values. Private morality values responsibility to one’s immediate family, whereas public morality is concerned with obligations to society and the world at large. Every member of society makes independent decisions based on what they themselves believe is right and wrong. Some may identify more closely with private morality and aim to benefit their families alone, while others emphasize public morality and work for the greater good of society. But which is considered moral in reality?